On Thursday 2006 December 14 09:36, Shawn Pearce wrote: > But I'm not sure that git-add should output anything. Last I checked > the 'mv' command in Linux doesn't say "Move 5 files" when I move 5 > files into a directory. Likewise I don't think that knowing that > 6781 files were added is useful, what if it should have really been > 6782 files? I'm unlikely to know, care, or realize it. That's a very particular example you've picked out there. Of course the user won't know if it should be 6781 or 6782; they might know if it should have been 2 or 10 though; 0 or 100. In your example, output like "about six and a half thousand", would probably be perfectly useful, but why not just output the number? > Your niggle list (is that what you called it) has been useful > fodder for discussion. I'm glad you took the time to write it up, > and to argue it so well on the list. There's a number of items on > it that I'd like to see happen too; enough that I may code some of > them if nobody beats me to it. I'm glad it was useful. I never know how many disclaimers to put on these things. I always feel that every message I write should begin with "I love git and use it every day, so please don't take this the wrong way, but..." Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html